CodeWarrior Whitepapers

Code Profilers: Choosing a Tool for Analyzing Performance

A profiler is a development tool that lets you look inside your application to see how each component - each routine, each block, and even each instruction - performs. You can find and correct your application's bottlenecks. How does a profiler work this magic?

This paper outlines:

• How code profilers work
• Differences between passive profilers and active profilers
• How active profilers instrument code
  

CodeWarrior's Architectural Advantage

Today's software developer faces many hurdles. CodeWarrior's multi-host, multi-language, and multi-target design gives engineers the freedom to choose the best path to their goal.

This paper outlines:

• The value of integrated development tools
• CodeWarrior's architecture -- its power and flexibility
• CodeWarrior's multi-host, multi-language, multi-target design
• How CodeWarrior meets developers' needs for multi-platform development
  

Porting GNU C Programs to Metrowerks CodeWarrior C Compiler

The inevitable differences in language syntax and library implementations between these two compilers are summerized here. This information can guide programmers in adapting GNU C programs so they build successfully with the CodeWarrior compiler.

This paper outlines:

• Differences in language syntax and library implementations between these two compilers
• How programmers can adapt GNU C programs to the CodeWarrior compiler with regards to straying from the ISO C standard and GNU language extension
• The UNIX service calls and ISO C stndard calls present in the Metrowerks Standard Library (MSL)
  

From Makefile to Project: CodeWarrior's Makefile Importer Wizard

CodeWarrior's Makefile Importer Wizard overcomes what may be the steepest barrier facing developers who want to move their projects into a visual development environment.

This paper outlines:

• The capabilities of a makefile
• The comparison of a makefile and a CodeWarrior project
• Importing a makefile into CodeWarrior
• An example, including screen shots to illustrate the process
  

Using Performance Analysis Tools

This whitepaper presents a brief overview of profiling technology. Learn what profilers are used for and how they can help your code run faster. Includes a case example of a profiler (CATS) in action.

• What profilers are used for
• A brief overview of profiling technology
• A case example of a profiler (CATS) in action
  

Porting from Microsoft ® Visual C++ ® to CodeWarrior

This is a gathering of porting problems and solutions compiled by CodeWarrior users and engineers.

• Porting problems and solutions gathered from CodeWarrior users, developers, and FAEs
• The following problems/solutions: Inline Assembler, Pointer Conversion, RTTI, Name Mangling, Floating Point Differences, Thread Functions, C9X Support, Min and Max, MSL and MFC Library Definitions
• Moving a project to CodeWarrior